After the man finished speaking, he kicked the woman away.
A trace of despair and numbness flashed in the woman's eyes.
They were powerless to resist.
The Ninth Special Zone still had slave trade, with formal slave markets, though taxes had to be paid.
The woman's mother was bought by her father as a slave, to bear and raise children. As a child born of a slave mother, the woman had no freedom.
When she reached puberty and became an adult in this world, she was sold by her father to a wealthy businessman.
This marked the beginning of her tumultuous life as a slave.
The man was truly a good man in the past.
The two could even be considered childhood sweethearts.
To marry her, he ventured into becoming a mercenary, and upon hearing she was sold by her father, he beat her father up.
Afterwards, he found her and, holding a gun, bought her back from the businessman.
She became the man's slave, yet she felt happiness, as if maybe their good days were approaching.
